Motivations to participate in online communities

By Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Alcides Velasquez, Elif Yilmaz Ozkaya. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

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I'm the mayor of my house: examining why people use foursquare - a social-driven location sharing application (2011, background): “We contribute to the research community’s increasing understanding of how and why people use social media (for example, [3, 6, 18, 21]).”
User Migration in Online Social Networks: A Case Study on Reddit During a Period of Community Unrest (2016, background): “Socially-curated websites such as Reddit depend on large communities for content creation and moderation (Lampe et al. 2010; Zhong et al. 2013; Stoddard 2015).”
Social media engagement: What motivates user participation and consumption on YouTube? (2017, result): “This confirms the findings of a previous study by Lampe et al. (2010) in which entertainment was a predictor of users participation on an online site.”
Characterizing Silent Users in Social Media Communities (2015, background): “In a survey conducted on a user-generated encyclopedia called Every-thing2.com, Lampe et al. (2010) reported that many users choose to lurk because they are satisﬁed with “getting in-formation”, as opposed to “sharing information”.”